Understanding a nutrition label

Lemondrizzle13

I've taken more of an interest in my food ever I woke up one day, looked in the mirror and saw that I was unhappy with what I saw and wanted to be healthier - I would eat anything and everything without checking the level of sugar, fat, etc that foods contained and would eat until full. Although I've learnt to better control myself, I still often get confused with the NHS recommendation for nutrition vs labels in the supermarket (if that makes sense). For example, I've recently started eating Fibre One bars:

Looking at the 100g section I can already see that it is high in saturated fat and sugar as per NHS guidelines but then looking at each bar which is 24g it's 1.5g for saturated fat and 6.7g of sugar which is showing us 'high' on my nutracheck app so what should I look at if I want to keep an eye out on my sugar intake?

olgadapolga

Unless you're eating 100g of the bars then use the amounts per bar if you are counting the precise amount of sugar you are consuming on a daily basis.

However, if you just want to know whether it is high in sugar to decide whether or not to buy/eat it then I'd go by the 'per 100g' figure. On the label you've shown, each bar is nearly 28% sugar. I wouldn't eat it myself.

If you want to make your life a bit easier, I found that the My Fitness Pal app was really helpful for calories counting/monitoring food group intake.

Lemondrizzle13

Thank you!

I have started to use MFP but it's the nutrition info I am still learning - am I right to assume that 'of which sugars' is pure sugar?